[lit-ideas] Re: On Nip Thievery

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:25:29 +0900

Whoops. HIt the wrong key.
John

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:24 PM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> And, belatedly, Congrats, John!!  Is the gender of said babe known or is
>> it a surprise?  What names await him/her?  How excited ARE you?  I assume,
>> of course, that pictures of the wee one are already forthcoming.  I remember
>> when my husband's daughter gave birth for the first time 4 years ago, her
>> first words to Grandpa were an awed and exhausted, "I made a person..."
>>
>> Julie Krueger
>>
>>
>> On 6/6/08, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> It seems an entirely proper time to ask who, amongst us, has personally
>>> witnessed volcanic lightening?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Carlos-Gutierrez/photo//080511/photos_ts/2008_05_11t154356_450x300_us_chile_volcano_environment/;_ylt=AktsnX3TnyuO3vZ21peBenADW7oF
>>>
>>> It hadn't crossed my mind as being a phenomena, much less did I know that
>>> "Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting
>>> volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes
>>> them.
>>> I can only imagine that such a thing would be a supremely impressive
>>> sight/sound/smell/feel.  I would give a fair amount to be within palpable
>>> distance.  I can't really begin to  imagine what humans,
>>> pre-atmospheric-understanding, must have thought at these events.
>>>
>>> All we have here is a line of thunderstorms with damaging winds, baseball
>>> size hail, flash floods, and tornado watches and warnings as the flickering
>>> TV channel follows the tornado touch-downs from west to east, telling us
>>> when it is too late to seek shelter, how many minutes we have left until
>>> Certain Disaster.  It's amazing the talent the weather folk have for
>>> convincingly announcing Armageddon every 10 minutes.  Of course the best
>>> part (and probably the only real part, come morning) of this is that this
>>> "significant squall line" causing a "serious situation" is not going to cool
>>> our patch of earth or atmosphere more than 2 degrees below today's intensely
>>> humid 90 degrees.
>>>
>>> On the bright side, It's summer, folks!  There's a big shiny thing in the
>>> sky!
>>>
>>> Julie Krueger
>>> heartened and going out to witness powers
>>>
>>
>>
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> John McCreery
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